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Sony Pictures Classics and Stage 6 Films have unveiled the release date and trailer for We Grown Now, a coming-of-age drama from writer-director Minhal Baig (Hala) that’s currently up for three three Independent Spirit Awards, including Best Feature, Best Cinematography, and Best Editing. Also…

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired North American rights to Stage 6 Films, Participant and Symbolic Exchange's We Grown Now, which had its world premiere in the Centerpiece and Next Wave Selects section at this year’s TIFF. The movie’s writer, director, producer Minhal Baig received TIFF’s Changemaker…

1497 has selected three finalist for their Features Lab.  The Lab's first year was held virtually, and the second year was hybrid, held virtually and in-person. For its third year, 1497 is conducting the Lab as an in-person, immersive, artistic retreat in Malibu, California, during which each Mentee…

WE GROWN NOW Section: Centerpiece Director: Minhal Baig Writers: Minhal Baig Logline: Two young boys, best friends Malik and Eric, discover the joys and hardships of growing up in the sprawling Cabrini-Green public housing complex in 1992 Chicago in the latest film from director Minhal…

EXCLUSIVE: American filmmaker Minhal Baig made waves with her 2019 breakout Sundance title Hala, and she's back this year with the TIFF Centerpiece title We Grown Now, which Deadline can share a first-look clip from above.  The pic is set in 1992 Chicago. Synopsis reads: As Michael Jordan solidifies…

EXCLUSIVE: The Black List has chosen six screenwriters out of 1,400 submissions for its ninth annual Features Lab.  Lab participants will workshop their scripts through peer groups, and one-on-one mentorship over the course of six weeks. Participating mentors include Minhal Baig (Hala), Jessica Bendinger (Bring It…

EXCLUSIVE: Minhal Baig, the filmmaker behind acclaimed feature film Hala, has signed an overall deal with Amazon Studios and has set her first project. Baig, who also wrote for the first season of Hulu's Ramy and the final season of Netflix's Bojack Horseman, will develop and produce content for the streamer as part…

In the Apple Original film Hala, filmmaker Minhal Baig tells a very personal story that parallels her own life and her relationship with her mother and father. Her film debuted at Sundance — without her family knowing. In fact, her family didn’t even know that she made the very personal film that echoed her own…

It was after its Sundance Film Festival premiere this year that Apple acquired rights to Hala, Minhal Baig’s coming-of-age film about a Pakistani American teenager Hala (Geraldine Viswanathan) who struggles to balance desire with her familial, cultural and religious obligations. It is now an Apple Original, joining…

Apple TV Plus only launched yesterday, but the tech giant’s new streaming service is already home to some awards-contending films. Hala, from writer-director Minhal Baig, tells the story of a Pakistani-American girl named Hala (Geraldine Viswanathan), who struggles to forge her own identity and explore her sexuality…

The second feature from writer/director Minhal Baig, Hala was a passion project, emerging from the director’s experiences growing up in Chicago. The daughter of immigrants, Baig is a first-generation, American-born artist whose film centers on a pivotal moment in her past—”this moment…in my senior year in high…